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Both a little scared

WHO: Yuichiro Hyakuya, Mikaela Hyakuya, Krul Tepes
WHERE: Yuu and Krul's housing in Heropa
WHEN: 2nd April
WHAT: That Yuu's Cursed Gear weapon, the demon inside it, is Krul's brother, well. That was bound to come out eventually....but Yuu has no idea.
WARNINGS: Possible mild violence involved in the confrontation?

[It really had been just another morning. Yuu getting up from bed, doing his push ups in his bedroom and then doing some quick training with Ashuramaru outside in the back yard as usual, so he at least gets some in before he really starts with his day even if he doesn't make it to the Training Center later as well on top of this. Even after he's had a shower and eaten, even after Mika headed out for...whatever it was he'd told Yuu briefly before leaving, he still feels Krul's eyes glaring at his back.

He tolerates it for a while. Tries not to lose it as a result of how it unnerves him when he has no idea what he even did to supposedly piss her off. But eventually, he can't help but wheel around and confront her. Hands balled into fists at his sides.]

Okay, what is it? You've been glaring at me all morning. So, what did I do?

[Probably not the smartest or safest approach. Confronting her so directly like this. Not when he isn't even sure anyone else is currently home if this might escalate. But he does also know she needs him -- or, at least, his seraph gene.]

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[ To be fair, Krul has done her best to simply ignore the truth behind Yuu's demon that remains sealed away within that sword he carries around with him. Patience is a virture after all, isn't it? But as far as the tiny vampire queen is concerned, she doesn't care about patience, not when she's been searching for the one inside that sword for a thousand years now.

Ashera Tepes, now Ashuramaru the demon.

Her brother.

She's entertained thoughts of simply stealing that sword away from Yuu while the boy sleeps but with not knowing much of the cursed gear and just how demons are chained to them and bound under a contract to a human, there's not much she would really be able to do with it.

So she holds back, glares, contemplates the many ways in which she might be able to free her brother from his prison he's been sentenced to no thanks to humans nor the first progenitor; as far as Krul is concerned, this is all his fault.

She's used to doing what she wants, when she wants, to who she wants and how she wants. So for Yuu to suddenly confront her and so boldly as he is, well... it causes the vampire queen to stare to him with almost amusement. If it were any other topic, she would probably laugh at him and find him being cute. But when it's concerning her brother, she can't seem to find the amusement in it and instead, stares to him coldly. ]

My, you think of yourself as so important, don't you? The world simply revolves around Yuuichirou Hyakuya and what he wants, doesn't it?

What? That's not what I meant. I just mean I know you've been glaring at me, so if I'm doing something that's annoying you, I can't stop unless I know what it is, right?

[Is more his train of thought than anything like the world revolving around him. He's all too well aware that the world would keep turning just as much without him. He might be....unique, with his seraph gene, but he's still just one human out of millions, billions of others around the world. Even among hundreds of other imPorts.

So he raises a hand to rub at the back of his head, looking almost part sheepish and part bored with some determination in there.]

[ How could it not bother her to see him out there in the backyard training with her brother who remains a prisoner to that sword? The icing on the cake is the fact that the cursed gear are used with every intention to not only harm but also kill a vampire. Somehow, humans had managed to find a way to use demons against vampires in their conquest to eradicate the so-called bloodsuckers.

So, look at that. Her very own brother, who was once a vampire like she, is being used by Yuu to kill others of their kind... to even be used against her should he feel threatened or think differently one day.

How can she not be furious about that?

Of course, she still doesn't say anything to him and instead, continues to stare coldly to him, standing there with arms at her sides. ]

You're in my way.

Kind of the point. So you'll tell me whatever is bugging you.

[He isn't moving. At least not yet, determined to figure out how to help, what to do to calm her down. He has no idea what is really going on, what is really wrong here. So of course, that this has anything to do with Ashuramaru doesn't register, since he obviously has no intention of using the weapon against her or Mika. At least, not while he maintains control of himself, of his demon, the seraph gene.

Which. Well, this probably seems silly, almost pathetic with how easy it would be for her to push or shove him out of the way, given her strength in comparison to Yuu's. Let alone their height difference.]

[ There's something about the way he blocks her, how he dares to defy her and what she doesn't ask of him, but tells him to do. Mika would never dare think twice about doing such a thing but... then again, Mika has always been at her mercy considering their difference in power and her being his savior of sorts.

Yuu, on the other hand, seems to do as he wants and that's something that has Krul feeling less than playful about for the moment.

She's quick-- so very quick as her hand lunges out towards Yuu and grabs him by the neck. Tightly. Of course, she doesn't outright strangle him, but she does seem to make it so that she's able to cut off his ability to breathe as she stares up to him with those same, cold, crimson eyes. ]

You really want to know?

[He should probably have been expecting her to get frustrated like this, grabbing him or pushing him aside. One hand instinctively moves to her wrist, as if he had a chance of physically prying her hand from his neck given their difference in strength, let alone the speed of which her hand is suddenly at his throat.

It makes it difficult to breathe, to even begin to verbally answer her, teeth gritted as they were from that pressure. So he simply attempts a nod, or as best of one he can manage in answer, with her hand at his neck.]

[ There's a silent sort of rage that begins to bubble up within the tiny vampire and it shows in the way her eyes grow colder with every passing second. ]

You have something that belongs to me. Something I've been looking for for a very long time.

[ Her words grow louder-- slowly, voice raising and showing a sense of authority around the boy... in case he happens to forget that he's dealing with not only someone much stronger and older than him but also The Vampire Queen who saved him. ]

I've killed countless people to find him. Made deals with you pathetic humans to secure information on his whereabouts.

[ With every word that leaves her mouth, her grip becomes tighter and tighter and tighter on Yuu's neck, so much to the point that her nails sink into his skin, piercing enough to allow a few trickles of blood to spill. ]

Ashuramaru. [ She says his name, fingers gripping tightly at Yuu's neck still. ] He's my brother.

[ And it's only after she feels ready to tear his very throat out from him that she finally releases him, though none too kindly, not even caring should he stumble back from the sheer force in which she releases him. ]

[His eyes seem to search hers, opening his lips as if to ask what he has of hers, but then she explains. Ashuramaru. Yuu never knew. How could he? Ashuramaru never mentioned. He'd never had reason to consider vampires having family. How they were even made in the first place that they might still have such bonds. He isn't sure he'd heard of any siblings or anything while in Sanguinem.

But then...Mika. He was still family. If other vampires were human before, than it would make sense that they'd have those bonds, those connections as well. The pain of her grip at his throat tightening seems like nothing in comparison to what she must have been going through. What Mika probably went through looking for him, and that was only four years.

He stumbles back, hitting against the wall when she releases him, a hand moving to his neck even as he stares, wide-eyed.]

You're....you're family? I didn't know.

[ Of course he didn't know. How could he possibly know such a thing? Next to the first and second progenitor, her life and everything surrounding her brother back when he was Ashera Tepes is shrouded in mystery and not something that most vampires know about. To be fair, not even Ferid seems to know much about the former Tepes which isn't all so surprising with the amount of secrets running rampant among their own kind what with Ferid having his fair share with these plans he supposedly has that involves betraying her.

But all of that doesn't really matter much when she has the very human her brother is contracted to standing before her.

Krul stares to Yuu, glaring him down as a hand curls into a fist at her side. There's an overwhelming sort of anger that is slowly coming to the surface and it takes everything within her to not punch him through wall after wall after wall until he's rendered unconscious or even dead. ]

He was taken from me. [ She manages to say then, her voice visibly shaking as fangs bare in anger. ] To become a demon. It was supposed to be just the two of us. That's how it always was. But then he was taken from me.

[ It's hard not to recall her anger as memories of the day in the field bombard her mind-- the way she begged and pleaded and cried for her brother to not leave her, to not go with the first progenitor, to not give her a world without him in it. ]

And you have him. This whole time. He's been here.

[ It's then that she recalls Mika's earlier words of how he supposedly spoke to her brother and it's in that moment that she lunges towards Yuu once more and grabs him by his neck again-- pinning him against the wall. ]

I want him back. Give him to me.

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He was...a vampire before?

[That actually would make sense. There's a reason the military still captures live vampires in the aftermath if they haven't fled from the battles. To make more demons, more contracts with Cursed Gear. Or general experiments on their limits or something. Yuu isn't really privy to all that given his lower rank though.

But even as he wants to step forward, to try comfort her somehow, she's on him again, hand at his throat, pinning up against the wall he was standing just in front of. One hand again goes to her wrist on instinct, but it isn't enough to free from given her strength.]

I -- I don't know how...

What if I just kill you right now?

[ Because it's tempting-- so tempting to snap his neck right here and now and hope that somehow it will free her brother from the curse he's been placed under within the weapon forged by humans. Who cares if he's her seraph of the end if it means it might set her brother free? The only reason she protects them in the first place is due to the deal she had made concerning her brother and his whereabouts. So what does it matter if she knows where her brother is now? What use does Yuu have to her anymore?

Her hold on him remains firm, eyes looking nowhere but his own as she more or less begins to strangle him against the wall. ]

You use my brother to kill my kind. The very thing he was before the humans got a hold of him.

[ Her voice begins to raise again, nails cutting deep into the skin at Yuu's throat. ]

I don't want to be in a world without him. And they've made him a prisoner for their little games that they play with the world. [ Tightening her hold. ] The very same people who experimented on you and Mika and countless others that I've killed to ensure that they don't end up in the wrong hands, the hands of you stupid humans.

[ Her anger is rising and it's difficult for her to really think straight with thoughts of what sort of torture he must have been put through-- Ashera, her brother. ]

He was starved to death. [ Her voice getting louder. ] That's how we become demons. They starve us until we go mad and become a shadow of a vampire, a demon. That's the very thing Mika was going to become until he fed from you. Why do you get your family member and I don't? Who are you to me?

[ For a moment, it feels as though she might actually kill Yuu right then and there-- seraph of the end project be damned.

But... it's the sudden look of pain in her eyes, the gentle brimming of tears that silently come that has her relent-- has her grip slowly loosen from Yuu's throat and it's the soft Ashera that she mutters under her breath as she looks into Yuu's eyes before she lets the boy go, dropping him in a sense. ]

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[There's little he can do, to really defend himself against her strength, short of him losing control. Which he doesn't want to do, not inside and not right now. With the way her grip at his throat tightens, he almost struggles to breathe as she explains, answers his question while venting her frustration on him.

It isn't hard to see how she might blame him. Maybe more indirectly since Yuu wasn't the one to take Ashera, to starve him and experiment in making him bound to that Cursed Gear. But even so. He was the one who ended up with that particular weapon.

It's only once she releases him that he falls back to the ground, hand to his throat, ignoring the thin trails of blood from her nails having been digging in. Coughing, as he splutters in catching his breath, as he kneels on the floor, one hand at the carpet.]

If I knew, I wouldn't have....I'd never want to separate family. I'm not sure if I know enough to free him for you. But I want to help if I can.

[He says once he catches his breath again, looking up to her through the bangs hanging in his face from their altercation.]

[ Krul stands there staring off to some particular spot on the floor ahead-- lost in her thoughts, somewhat hearing what Yuu says but not at the same time.

Her brother, Ashera... to think she's spent a thousand years searching for him, picking up whatever clues she could to find his whereabouts... and he ends up imprisoned in a sword and under contract to humans. It's enough to tear her heart out... provided she still felt anything and yet, concerning her brother, she does... she always has. It's perhaps the one slice of humanity left within her and that she's held so tightly to for the past thousand years.

It's only when she's able to pull herself out of her thoughts and away from that grassy field that she speaks, not bothering to look to Yuu or even so much as move, seeming lifeless as she stands there. ]

You can't help me. [ She mutters softly. ] He's lost to me.

I mean, I know there might not be much if any research here with the way our demons or Cursed Gear work but....I have to try. I know, if it were Mika, I'd...I'd look everywhere. Do anything to help him, so.

[Of course, he figures she means it might not be possible, while here. Apart from any sort of research or results of such back home that the military did in regards to the Cursed Gear. Not necessarily that there might not be a way to safely free Ashuramaru from his contract with Yuu now it's been made.

He can't help but want to do something. Feeling awful for separating them like this even unknowingly. Krul looks so....defeated. He doesn't want her to give up though. Wants to try and reassure her somehow.]

I promise. If there's a way to free him, to get him back for you, I'll find it. Maybe if I ask him he might know!

[ His words fall on deaf ears for the most part, Krul seeming to have emotionally checked out for the time being as she stands there and stares off into nothing. With being here-- being in this world, there's nothing really that can be done to free her brother from that sword and even if there was, who's to say Ashera simply wouldn't disappear once separated? That's a thing that happens here with the Porter, isn't it?

But it's when he mentions how he could ask him that Krul finally snaps out of her dazed state, throwing her attention back onto the boy. Which? In all honesty, probably wasn't the smartest of things to say to her, Yuu. ]

What do you mean ask him?

Well, I can talk to him. Sort of....like in my head? I've never really had to explain it, but. He sees and hears what I do. He always knows what's going on. Or -- I mean, sometimes he takes over, in fights. Not that that's always enough, against nobles, but.

[Yuu doesn't even consider the potential implications. Let alone that Krul could potentially take advantage of that in deliberately setting him off in hopes of Ashuramaru taking control of the boy's body. ]

[ Somehow, Yuu's explanation causes Krul to feel something along the lines of what one feels when they're experiencing a broken heart. Ashera can see and hear everything that Yuu can? Then why... why hasn't he spoken up? Why hasn't he fought for control over Yuu's body to see her-- to speak to her? How can he just remain silent when he's been able to see and hear her this entire time?

That alone causes Krul to stare in disbelief at Yuu for a moment before anger returns to the tiny pink-haired vampire and she reaches out to grab Yuu once more. This time, however, it's by his shirt collar rather than his neck. ]

Ashera... you can hear me? You can see me? [ There's a pause as Krul stares to Yuu-- into his eyes, attempting to look past what she sees in front of her and look deeper. ] Why did you leave me... why won't you speak to me right now?

[ As her voice shakes a little, nails dig into the front of Yuu's shirt, clutching at his chest as she continues to stare. ]

Answer me, Ashera!

[ She yells then with a rather hard hit to Yuu's chest as she does so. Not enough to really hurt him but enough to push him back without really meaning to. ]

[Even grabbing him by the shirt has him taken by surprise, blinking with wide eyes at her grabbing at him again, the way she stares into those wide green eyes, pleading, questioning her brother.

His arms move, almost as if he instinctively wants to comfort her with a hug, but he doesn't quite get to.

Yuu's body goes limp for a moment, stumbling when she hits at his chest, in regaining his balance almost instinctively. But that's when those familiar reddish markings start to appear at the boy's face, his wrists and hands beyond the sleeves his his shirt.]

Stop.

[ Krul stares when those reddish marks begin to bleed across Yuu's skin though shows little concern for what might be happening to the boy. It's when he asks her to stop that she reaches up and, with a small hand, cradles the side of his face, crimson eyes staring past those green still. ]

Ashera, I'm right here. I couldn't find you. Please...

[ There's an almost pleading look in her eyes before it turns almost dark and rather than looking past Yuu, she looks at him this time, fingers twisting in the front of his shirt. ]

Give me back my brother. [ Even as she says the words, she pulls Yuu in closer to her. ] Give him back to me.

I said stop!

[But she doesn't, still pleading, pulling him in closer. It's too much. Yuu shakes his head, but those marks keep spreading across his face, his cheeks, even as she cradles the side of his face. Those eyes she looks to start to change colour, red bleeding through the more familiar green.]

[ The fact that Yuu thinks he can speak to her of all people that way would normally have the tiny vampire queen laughing in amusement. But not this time. This time, there's too much stirring beneath her and threatening to bubble to the surface-- namely, killing Yuu right here and now.

So it's with nothing short of anger in her eyes that she grabs the front of Yuu's shirt and yanks him away from the wall... only to throw him into the other room, not showing an ounce of concern for the boy should he happen to crash into any furniture, let alone the wall.

Krul, of course, smacks over a lamp-- shattering it before it can even hit the floor as she stands there in the doorway with murder in her crimson eyes. ]

Stop? You dare to tell me to stop? [ Fingers curl into a fist at her side as nails painted in pink cut so hard into the palm of her hand that blood trickles down her wrist. ] Give me back my brother!

[Krul's voice carries through the air, and Mika suspects that he would have heard it even without his enhanced senses. Her anger can be heard even before he opens the door, and if his heart still beat it would have raced at that point. Something breaks. He hopes whatever it was hasn't hit Yuu.]

[Of course they don't fight until he actually leaves the house. Of course. He should have brought Yuu with him.]

What are you--?

[Her anger isn't really anything new. What scares him is what he hears Yuu say. Mika hurriedly opens the door, gaze flickering through the room until he sees Yuu. He chokes on his own breath, dashing to his side before he's even thinking about what he's doing.]

[Yuu winces as he is thrown and hits against the wall, dropping to the ground just when Mika shows up. The younger teen's neck bleeding and staining his shirt even as he attempts to get up, as Mika rushes to his side. The tell-tale reddish markings still at his cheeks as he grits his teeth when he sits up, glaring at Krul.]

It's...it's fine, Mika. Nothing to do with you.

[While Yuu's definition of 'fine' has probably always been....skewed given his upbringing, this is probably debatable, what with Krul having just thrown him like a ragdoll, with how close he is to losing control to his demon right now.

And....still doesn't answer Mika's question of just what the heck he walked into just now either, for that matter.]

[ Normally, she would have been able to sense Mika's presence closing in on them-- on their house but what with all the supposed emotions overwhelming her, she hadn't heard the blond vampire make his entrance and stares in surprise for a moment when she catches sight of her "son" rushing to Yuu's side.

Of course he would. Of course he would go to him. To the person who has her brother. Her brother she's been searching for for a thousand years now. Of course he would go to him.

She stands there, blood still trickling down her wrist and splashing to the floor as crimson eyes remained fixed on Yuu, though the word she coldly says is clearly directed at Mika. ]

Leave.

[Mika holds his breath, gaze flickering from Krul to Yuu. He can smell the blood in the air, along with the slight scent of electricity. Mika turns to Krul, trying to guess exactly what is going on. His body language is stiff with uncertainty and fear, and it's not for himself.

Her voice leaves no room for argument.

Yuu's on the verge of becoming truly dangerous to them. Mika can see that. There is a huge risk in not having him chained up.

But he's still Yuu.

Ignoring his friend's protests, he grabs him and lifts him up, fully intending on getting him out of there while Krul rages.]

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